Karakeep: Your AI-Powered Self-Hostable 'Everything' Organizer

Introducing Karakeep: The Ultimate Self-Hostable Digital Organizer

Are you a digital hoarder struggling to keep track of countless links, notes, and files? Meet Karakeep (formerly Hoarder), a powerful and versatile self-hostable application designed to bring order to your digital life. This open-source project, inspired by the Arabic word 'krakeeb' meaning 'miscellaneous clutter,' embraces the art of organized hoarding, ensuring your valuable digital assets are always accessible and searchable.

What is Karakeep?

At its core, Karakeep is a 'bookmark-everything' application. It's not just for links; you can seamlessly store and manage notes, images, and even PDFs. What sets Karakeep apart is its intelligent integration of artificial intelligence and robust self-hosting capabilities.

Key Features That Make Karakeep Stand Out:

• AI-Powered Tagging & Summarization: Leveraging AI (including ChatGPT and support for local models via Ollama), Karakeep automatically tags your saved content, making it incredibly easy to categorize and retrieve. It can also generate summaries, saving you time and effort.
• Comprehensive Archival: Say goodbye to broken links. Karakeep utilizes tools like Monolith for full-page archival, preserving web content as it was. It even supports auto-archiving videos from platforms like YouTube using youtube-dl.
• Full-Text Search: Every piece of content you save is made searchable. Whether it's a link description, a note, or text extracted from an image via OCR, Karakeep's full-text search (powered by Meilisearch) ensures you find what you need quickly.
• Multi-Platform Access: Bookmark on the go with dedicated Chrome and Firefox extensions. Plus, native iOS and Android apps allow you to access and manage your hoarded content from anywhere.
• Rule-Based Management: Automate your organization with custom rules, tailoring Karakeep to your specific workflow.
• Automated Content Fetching: Karakeep automatically fetches titles, descriptions, and images for links, enriching your bookmarks without manual input.
• RSS Feed Hoarding: Automatically collect and archive content from your favorite RSS feeds, turning them into a personal, searchable knowledge base.
• Highlighting & Sorting: Mark and store highlights from your archived content and organize your bookmarks into custom lists.
• Self-Hosting First: Designed from the ground up for self-hosters, Karakeep gives you complete control over your data, offering a powerful alternative to commercial services like Pocket, Raindrop, or Omnivore.

Why Build Karakeep? The Developer's Vision

The creator, a seasoned systems engineer, embarked on building Karakeep to stay engaged with web development while addressing a personal need: a self-hostable, intelligent alternative to existing read-it-later and note-taking apps. Recognizing the limitations of tools like Pocket and memos in terms of link previews, automatic tagging, and self-hosting priority, Karakeep was born to offer a more comprehensive and controlled solution for personal digital archiving.

Technical Stack:

Karakeep is built with a modern and robust stack, ensuring performance and scalability:

• Web App: NextJS (using app router)
• Database: Drizzle for ORM and migrations
• Authentication: NextAuth
• Client-Server Communication: tRPC
• Crawling: Puppeteer
• AI Integration: OpenAI (with local model support via Ollama)
• Search Engine: Meilisearch

Experience Karakeep:

You can explore a read-only demo of Karakeep at https://try.karakeep.app using email: [email protected] and password: demodemo.

Karakeep is an actively developed project, constantly evolving to meet the needs of digital hoarders everywhere. If you're looking for a powerful, open-source, and self-hostable solution to manage your digital life, Karakeep is an excellent choice. Give it a star on GitHub and join its growing community!